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Trump’s EPA Chief: We Have Found the ‘Gold Bars’ Biden’s Team Hid – $20 Billion Set Aside to Thwart Trump By Ben Zeisloft
February 17, 2025 – EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin revealed on Wednesday that staffers for former President Joe Biden established a $20 billion slush fund to advance their interests once President Donald Trump took office.
Zeldin said in a video posted to X that an “extremely disturbing video” circulated two months ago showing a Biden appointee in the EPA admitting that the team was “tossing gold bars off the Titanic.”
According to Zeldin, the “gold bars” were tax dollars moved out of the EPA as the Biden administration drew to a close.
But Zeldin’s team has now found the “gold bars.”
“Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA,” he said in the video.
“This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rushed job with reduced oversight,” he continued.
Zeldin explained that the money was used to prop up a leftist patronage network rather than serve the taxpayer.
“Even further, this pot of $20 billion was awarded to just eight entities that were then responsible for doling out your money to NGOs and others at their discretion, with far less transparency,” Zeldin said. “Just under $7 billion was sent to one entity called the Climate United Fund.”
Zeldin vowed that he would seek to claw back the $20 billion and would examine the failure of financial transparency that occurred.
“The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over,” he said.
“The American public deserves a more transparent and accountable government than what transpired these past four years.”
This stash of “gold bars” from the EPA is merely one of several slush funds that have been discovered within less than a month of Trump taking office.
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency similarly uncovered billions of dollars in bizarre or corrupt projects at USAID, through which leftists were employed to promote their pet ideologies and shove them down the throats of other countries.
The American people hope that Zeldin is correct.
The vast majority want the “days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups” to finally be over.
In other words, they want the money back in their pockets, not thrown off the Titanic.
Social Security data shows millions more eligible recipients than living Americans, Musk reveals By Ben Whedon
“This might be the biggest fraud in history,” he warned.
February 17, 2025 Just The News – Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief Elon Musk on Monday posted Social Security data revealing the existence of tens of millions of eligible recipients beyond the total population of the United Sates.
“According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security,” he quipped, referencing a popular teenage fantasy novel series.
The spreadsheet of data showed millions of recipients over the age of 120, including one between the ages of 360 and 369. In total, the data accounting for nearly 395 million people. The population of the U.S. is roughly 335 million people, meaning that about 60 million Social Security numbers were listed as eligible beyond the living population.
“Yes, there are FAR more ‘eligible’ social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA,” he responded to someone highlighting the disparity.
“This might be the biggest fraud in history.”
The total population, notably includes illegal people who may not be eligible recipients and therefore the gap between that figure and current records may be even larger.
INSANE FOOTAGE: Multiple Injuries After Plane Crash Lands In Toronto, Flips Over On Its Back
February 17, 2025 Yeshiva World News – A Delta Airlines CRJ900 flying from Minneapolis crash-landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport, leaving at least eight passengers injured, according to local reports.
The terrifying incident unfolded as the plane attempted to land, resulting in a catastrophic failure that left the aircraft upside down on the tarmac. Shocking witness footage captures passengers scrambling to safety, with some seen outside the wreckage.
Despite the severity of the crash, all passengers and crew have been accounted for. First responders worked rapidly to evacuate the injured, as smoke and debris surrounded the overturned aircraft.
Officials have yet to confirm the cause of the crash, but investigators are on-site as Toronto Pearson, and the airport has been shut down until at least Tuesday morning.
[Ed.: Ho-hum. Another day, another plane crash.]
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British Jews Prepare to Leave UK as They Face Shocking Antisemitism Not Seen Since Pre-WW2 [5:20]
February 11, 2025 CBN News – LONDON – In Britain today, one only needs to watch anti-Israel, pro-Hamas demonstrations to hear where the nation is headed. An angry man calls Zionists “filthy animals.” A man with a bullhorn bellows at passersby, “Like obedient sheep, you obey Israel.” Another protestor says on camera, “This whole condemning Hamas, I’m not going to condemn them. And Israel doesn’t exist.” And an angry woman in a burqa shrieks at Jewish protestors, “Your time is finished. You’re finished!
Most British Jews now believe they no longer have a future here. Recent polling has also found that most hide their Jewishness in public and do not feel welcome in the United Kingdom.
Read the full story from CBN’s Dale Hurd here: https://cbn.com/news/world/your-time-…
Marco Rubio slams CBS journalist for suggesting free speech caused the Holocaust [5:32]
February 16, 2025 Sky News Australia – Secretary of State Marco Rubio clashed with CBS host of ‘Face the Nation’, Margaret Brennan, during a segment on Sunday.
Rubio and Brennan discussed US Vice President JD Vance’s speech in Germany, where he slammed Europe’s push for censorship.
Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference in Germany last week and criticised Europe for adopting a “Soviet” style of censorship.
Brennan criticised Vance’s speech and suggested that free speech was “weaponised” by Nazi Germany to bring about the Holocaust.
Rubio quickly defended Vice President Vance for simply giving his opinion at the conference.
Following Rubio’s defence of Vance’s speech, Brennan then attempted to link free speech to being weaponised “to conduct a genocide.”
The Secretary of State strongly “disagreed” with Brennan, asserting, “Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide.”
“The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities, and they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews,” Rubio said.
Why are U.S. banks flying gold from London to New York? James Liddell
About 8,000 gold bars have been moved out of the Bank of England’s vaults in recent months
Saturday 15 February 2025 INDEPENDENT – Deep under London’s Threadneedle Street lies an intricate network of tunnels holding the world’s second-largest depository of gold.
The Bank of England’s nine heavily fortified vaults hold hundreds of tonnes of the precious metal valued at more than £200 billion ($252 billion).
But now, they are slowly being emptied over fears that President Donald Trump is about to start a global trade war.
Much of the gold has been shipped to New York City where the commodity is, for the moment, worth substantially more than in the U.K. capital.
The U.S. bank JPMorgan and the U.K.’s HSBC are two of the biggest names flying the precious metal across the Atlantic to cover losses on short positions, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The disruption to the gold market, and subsequent movement of bullion from London to Manhattan, appears to be a consequence of Trump’s looming tariff threats against imports from the European Union entering the U.S.
This week, the president has already announced sweeping 25 percent import taxes on two other metals: steel and aluminum.
Traders are now nervous that Trump will impose tariffs on gold.
Deputy Governor of the BoE Sir Dave Ramsden, told The Telegraph it had been inundated with requests after New York’s futures market prices surged above the London cash price.
Gold futures in the Big Apple have risen 11 percent this year, closing Thursday at $2,935 a troy ounce. Some analysts predict they could soon hit a record-high of $3,000 a troy ounce.
Roughly 8,000 bars are believed to have been moved out of the Bank’s vaults over the past few months, equating to about two percent of its total stock.
Some of the world’s biggest financial institutions are now capitalizing on the emerging arbitrage opportunity.
Banks are, in essence, shorting the price of gold.
JPMorgan and HSBC – who have access to huge gold supplies in London – often lend out bullion to borrowers who need to use it as collateral. Interest is charged on the loan, with the banks hedging against price decreases by selling gold futures in New York.
In February alone, JPMorganChase is estimated to deliver more than $4 billion in gold against futures contracts in New York, according to Comex filings.
And, since Election Day when Trump defeated then-Vice President Kamala Harris at the ballot box in November, U.S. gold inventories have doubled.
Jetting the gold using the cargo hold of commercial flights is the cheapest way to transport the valuable commodity.
The gold is first shuttled to the airport in high-strength vans before being sent to Swiss refiners to recast – due to Comex contracts requiring different bar sizing – it before flying on to the U.S.
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Draining the Swamp: Unemployment Claims Skyrocket in DC Amid DOGE Layoffs
Trump Ends School COVID Vaccine Mandates, But He’s Not Even Close to Being Finished By Jack Davis
February 16, 2025 – The federal funding spigot is being turned off for any school or college that requires students to have a COVID-19 vaccine under an executive order released Friday by President Donald Trump.
The order said that despite the ebb of COVID-19, some “school districts and universities continue to coerce children and young adults into taking the COVID-19 vaccine by conditioning their education on it, and others may re-implement such mandates.”
The order noted Trump’s position that parents should decide which vaccines children receive.
“Parents and young adults should be empowered with accurate data regarding the remote risks of serious illness associated with COVID-19 for children and young adults, as well as how those risks can be mitigated through various measures, and left free to make their own decisions accordingly,” the order said.
“Given the incredibly low risk of serious COVID-19 illness for children and young adults, threatening to shut them out of an education is an intolerable infringement on personal freedom. Such mandates usurp parental authority and burden students of many faiths,” the order said.
The order said “discretionary Federal funds” should not go to any college, school, or state education agency that requires a COVID-19 vaccine to attend classes in person.
The order gives the secretary of education and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 90 days to give Trump a report of what discretionary money flows to schools, colleges, or states that require a COVID-19 vaccine and how they plan to either block aid from those offenders in the future or rescind existing discretionary aid. The order also requires a plan to ban such mandates in the future.
Trump has nominated Linda McMahon to lead the Department of Education, but she has not yet been confirmed.
Trump “is committed to protecting personal freedoms and ensuring that Americans’ education isn’t conditioned on unnecessary government mandates,” a White House fact sheet issued in conjunction with the order said.
The fact sheet calls a vaccine requirement “government coercion.”
“Studies consistently show that children and young adults have an incredibly low risk of developing a severe illness from COVID-19,” the fact sheet said.
The fact sheet added that Trump “is dedicated to ensuring that American students are not forced to choose between their education and their medical freedom.”
The document also noted that Trump is a “staunch advocate for parental rights, ensuring families have the primary role in shaping their children’s educational journey, free from undue bureaucratic mandates.”
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump said he “would not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate,” according to CBS News.
Watch: School Board Actually Runs from Angry Parents Who Caught Them Letting 5-Year-Olds See Bondage Gear By Ole Braatelien
February 16, 2025
Parents armed with verbal pitchforks and torches sent woke administrators cowering away at a school board meeting in New York state Tuesday night.
The parents of Penfield Central School were outraged that the school had exposed young children to an obscene book titled “The Rainbow Parade” by Emily Neilson, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail.
The book is about a young girl and her two moms attending a pride parade. Among the illustrations included are two men in bondage gear holding hands, alongside other queer spectacles.
The controversy arose after a kindergartener reportedly came home with the book, which is available in the school’s library, according to RochesterFirst.com.
Parents expressed their indignation with school officials.
WATCH https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1889762521701130349/video/1
“If you think that that’s appropriate for children to see, then there’s something wrong with you,” parent John Feathers said, according to the Mail.
“You need to have a mental evaluation. There’s no reason that should be in the schools whatsoever at all,” he added.
School Board President Emily Roberts tried but failed to maintain control of the meeting as parents objected throughout the session.
“We have the policy in place. The procedures in place to object,” Roberts said, according to WHEC-TV in New York.
“That is not how you object,” she said to the disgruntled crowd, asking them to stop interrupting. “We will ask those people who cannot do that to be removed. We are here at our board meeting conducting our business.”
That particular comment prompted boos from parents.
WATCH https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnP9Xciiu6Y&t=29s
“It’s our board meeting,” one woman among the parents yelled.
Shortly after, Roberts called a recess, and the school board members retreated, further agitating parents.
“They’re just leaving?” one parent said. “How do you just leave a school board meeting with a packed room?”
As for the book, it will remain in the library, as there has not yet been a formal complaint to have it removed, a school official said, according to RochesterFirst.com.
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Remember How Pope Francis Is Pro-Illegal Immigrant? Turns Out Catholic Charities Have Taken Billions in Shelter Grants By Ole Braatelien
February 16, 2025 – Catholic Charities USA raked in billions of taxpayer dollars to shelter illegal immigrants during the Biden administration, according to a Just the News report published Tuesday.
Over the last four years, the organization collected more than $2 billion in federal grants intended for immigration-related programs, Just the News reported, citing data from USASpending.gov.
The exorbitant sum makes Catholic Charities, with its 168 U.S. branches, one of the largest private recipients of such funding, which helped shelter and relocate illegals.
Catholic Charities’ main donor was the Department of Health and Human Services, which granted the organization roughly $1.93 billion, according to the report.
Other donors included the Department of Homeland Security, which forked over more than $156 million, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development: $138 million.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency also donated to the Catholic volunteer organization, though the report didn’t cite how much.
However, FEMA has faced scrutiny from Republicans in recent months regarding its misallocation of taxpayer dollars toward immigration.
In October 2024, following Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the House Committee on Homeland Security sent a letter to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas regarding his comments a week prior that FEMA did “not have the funds, to make it through the [hurricane] season.”
The letter went on to say that the reason FEMA didn’t have the funds was that it had depleted them on illegal immigration programs.
Just the News cited other instances in which Catholic Charities’ subsidiary offices received mountainous sums of cash for immigration programs during the Biden administration.
“For many local chapters, these new funds dwarfed the previous grants they had been awarded in previous years,” the news outlet wrote.
In fiscal year 2021, for example, the Diocese of Fort Worth in Texas received $11.7 million in grants.
But by FY 2023, that sum exploded to $401.7 million — most of it reserved for the “Refugee and Entrant Assistance” program.
Just the News reached out to Catholic Charities USA, but had not received a comment at the time of publication.
The report comes in the wake of recent remarks by Pope Francis condemning President Donald Trump’s mass deportation of illegals.
In a Monday letter addressed to U.S. Bishops, Pope Francis laid out the Catholic Church’s stance on the immigration issue.
“One must recognize the right of a nation to defend itself and keep communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival,” Francis wrote.
“That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness,” he wrote.
U.S. Border Czar Tom Homan gave reporters his response to the pope’s letter.
“He wants to attack us for securing our border? He’s got a wall around the Vatican, does he not?” Homan said.
“So he’s got a wall around that protects his people and himself, but we can’t have a wall around the United States?”
Ilhan Omar is FINALLY getting DEPORTED?! [8:01]
Feb 13, 2025
Goodbye, Ilhan Omar!
It’s Not Just the Suit – Can You Spot the Difference? By Ben Zeisloft
NATO Meeting Pic, Says ‘One of These Things Is Not Like the Others’
February 15, 2025 THE WESTERN JOURNAL – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth challenged social media users on Thursday to observe what sets him apart from other Western military leaders.
Hegseth was in Europe this week visiting American troops stationed abroad and meeting with defense ministers from NATO member nations.
The former Fox News host and recently confirmed leader of the Pentagon then posted a picture in which he is positioned in the middle of those foreign officials.
“One of these things is not like the others,” the caption read.
“America First, always.”
There were indeed many differences between Hegseth and his foreign counterparts.
The most obvious was his bright blue suit, which contrasted with the darker alternatives worn by other defense ministers.
But upon further inspection, one may also notice that Hegseth, 44, is noticeably younger and more physically fit than the others, who are for the most part either chubby, stick-thin, or female.
Hegseth demonstrated his physical prowess throughout the week by completing morning training with American service members stationed in Europe.
That included a two-mile run with soldiers and Marines in Poland, plus “5 sets of 47” pushups, apparently in honor of 47th President Donald Trump.
He likewise lifted weights and ran with service members in Germany, telling social media followers that there was “no bureaucracy” involved, just “sharp minds, strong bodies, and a mission-first mindset.”
The most important difference between Hegseth and his counterparts is nevertheless ideological.
Unlike former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Hegseth is indeed “America first, always.”
He made no apology for that priority when meeting with NATO ministers.
Hegseth called on European leaders to take charge of their own defense, especially as America handles border security and Chinese aggression.
“As the United States prioritizes its attention to these threats, European allies must lead from the front,” Hegseth said in an address delivered in Brussels, Belgium.
That would specifically look like NATO nations fulfilling Trump’s request to increase defense spending from 2% of GDP to 5% of GDP.
“We ask each of your countries to step up on fulfilling the commitments that you have made, and we challenge your countries — and your citizens — to double down and re-commit yourselves not only to Ukraine’s immediate security needs but to Europe’s long-term defense and deterrence goals,” he continued.
These sorts of claims are sure to melt the minds of leftists on both sides of the pond, but Hegseth prioritizing “America first” is a welcome break from the status quo in the Western world for the past several decades.
Hegseth, simply put, is “not like the others.”
Massive Shake-Up at NIH and CDC: Over 5,000 Probationary Employees Fired in Friday Purge
HORROR: Transgender Illegal Alien Arrested in New York For Raping Child in Public Bathroom
Indiana Proposes to Absorb 33 Counties from Illinois that Voted to Leave the State
